Growing a Beauty Products Garden – 28 Plants, Flowers & Herbs

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This is an amazing resource for anyone who makes homemade, natural beauty recipes. Tanya shares 28 different plants that you can grow and use in homemade, personal beauty recipes.. The plants can be grown in an in-ground garden and also in containers and window boxes.

Tanya organizes the plants into helpful categories. She also goes into detail about the properties and benefits of each plant. Here are the categories:

• Plants for Healing Burns & Damaged Skin (4 plants)
• Herbs for Acne (4 plants)
• Plants for Mature Skin (4 plants)
• Astringent and Toning Herbs (4 plants and herbs)
• Plants that Moisturize the Skin (4 plants)
• Plants that Naturally Lighten and Darken (4 plants)
• Anti-Inflammatory Herbs and Plants (4 plants)

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Growing a Beauty Products Garden – 28 Plants, Flowers & Herbs

How to Convert a Wooden Chair into a Planter

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This is a nice tutorial that explains how to take a wooden chair and convert it into a flower planter. Adina provides step-by-step directions including photographs. She has a neat technique for holding the soil in place.

It’s really a pretty easy project. The final chair planter with red verbena plants would look beautiful in any garden.

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How to Convert a Wooden Chair into a Planter

5 Ways to Save Even More Money Gardening

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Sarah discusses 5 different things you can do that will help you save even more money by gardening. She discusses the following (and includes helpful links):

An easy way to propagate many plants out of one plant (for a particular veggie)
A strategy regarding seeds
A surprising homemade fertilizer you can easily make
Another simple strategy for planning what you grow in your garden
A money-saving mulch idea

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5 Ways to Save Even More Money Gardening

Grow Your Own Perennial Herb Container Garden

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In this article, Stephanie shares pictures of her container herb garden which has 14 herbs that come back year after year. She can even harvest sage, rosemary, oregano and other herbs in the colder months.

Stephanie shares tips on:

Containers
Soil
Site Selection
Picking Plants (With recommendations on 14 different herbs)

This is a VERY helpful article for the herb gardener. Click on the Grow Your Own Perennial Herb Container Garden link below to read the complete article.

Grow Your Own Perennial Herb Container Garden

13 Tips for Planting an Herb Garden

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Herbs are not always easy to grow. To help increase your chances of success, AmberLee shares 13 tips for planting an herb garden. Here are a few of the things she discusses:

Learn what herb to not start with
What’s the best way to plant another herb that tends to spread and take over?
Which perennial herbs should you plant?
What are the best practices when it comes to watering and fertilizing?
And MORE!

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13 Tips for Planting an Herb Garden

How to Grow Green Beans in Containers

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Green beans are easy to grow in containers. This article explains everything you need to know about successfully growing pole green beans or bush green beans in your container garden. You’ll learn:

Best containers for growing green beans
When to plant
Where to place the containers
Soil Requirements
How to plant green beans
Watering
Fertilizing
Harvesting

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How to Grow Green Beans in Containers

How to Grow Blueberries In A Pot

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Fresh blueberries are very expensive in our area. This article discusses how to grow blueberries in a large pot in your garden or on your patio/balcony. Growing blueberries can be both fun and economical. You’ll find the following tips:

What size container to use
What soil to use
Where to put the plant
Watering Requirements
When to Harvest
Pruning
How to Overwinter the blueberry plant

Be sure to read the additional tips at the bottom of the article. There’s some very helpful information

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How to Grow Blueberries In A Pot

How to Make a One-Pot Indoor Herb Garden

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This article explains how to create an indoor herb garden using basil, thyme and sage plants. There are directions on the size of pot to buy, how to plant the herbs, sunlight and watering requirements, and how to harvest the herbs.

If you have a window with a lot of Winter sunlight, you can grow your herbs through the Winter months. However, you can also keep an indoor herb garden with cooking herbs during the warmer months. You could also try growing a pot of medicinal herbs too. Very nice article.

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How to Make a One-Pot Indoor Herb Garden

How to Create a Pallet Garden

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If you’re thinking of using wooden pallets in your garden this year, Mavis Butterfield shares how she started her own pallet garden. It’s not a step-by-step tutorial but she provides some good information. She explains what to look for when you select recycled pallets She also provides a source for new wooden pallets in Tacoma for $9 a pallet! That’s dirt cheap! 🙂

From the photographs it looks like she prepared the soil, then placed each pallet and covered it with potting soil. Another method is to place the pallet face down and cover the bottom and sides of the pallet with landscaping paper or gardening fabric. You staple the paper or fabric in place on the bottom and side pieces. Then when you flip the pallet over and place it in the garden any potting soil that you pour over the pallet will be contained by the landscaping paper or gardening fabric. This keeps the good soil contained and also deters weeds. Whatever method you use, the pallets have a wonderful organic look. You also end up with nice, straight rows.

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How to Create a Pallet Garden

What is Square Foot Gardening?

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Square foot gardening works in both small garden spaces and in larger gardens. The idea was created by Mel Bartholemew. It’s a form of raised bed gardening that is very popular.

You build a 4’ x 4’ planter box, line it with weedcloth, and fill it with a particular blended mixture of soil. Then you add a wooden grid that partitions the box into 1’ x 1’ squares. After that you can plant your crops in each square using Mel’s recommendations on number of seeds.

I like a lot of things about this method. It can be used in areas with poor soil. It reduces seed and water waste. It also looks pretty neat. I think you could raise the boxes higher by adding legs or putting them on top of wooden platforms. This would greatly reduce bending and stooping for all gardeners.

Mel claims that you can grow your garden plants with:

50% of the cost
20% of the space
10% of the water
5% of the seeds
2% of the work

This article explains everything you need to know to start gardening using square foot gardening. There’s also a short video where Mel discusses the method.

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What is Square Foot Gardening?

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